Expensive Taste: The Most Extravagant Gingerbread Houses You Can Think Of

Yes, we know, grandma always makes the best gingerbread houses—but what about gingerbread castles? Gingerbread pirate ships? Or even gingerbread Guggenheims? This holiday, VF.com collected the most outrageous, extravagant, and downright fantastical gingerbread houses across the country. Prepare to be dazzled by—dare we say it—gingerbread art.

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With 150 pearls and a five-carat Mozambique ruby, this house (offered by luxury company VeryFirstTo) may be made out of gingerbread, but it’s more like a lot of dough: approximate cost is an astounding $77,000.

Charity City Harvest hosted their sixth-annual Gingerbread Extravaganza with Le Parker Meridien. This year’s theme? Made in New York—and what’s more appropriate than King Kong climbing the Empire State Building?

This gingerbread ski chalet, created by the International Culinary Center, has electricity and working ski lift. Jansen Chan, director of pastry operations, told VF.com the project took 18 people to build and 40 hours to complete.

This masterful gingerbread Indian palace was created by the Courtland High School German Club from Spotsylvania, Virginia, which took first place in the teen division at the Grove Park Inn’s National Gingerbread House competition.